What are they going to do, claw it back after the checks go out?

Haha, very funny, I too want to live in a civil war hellscape!

Honestly I liked her. I thought she’d make good decisions on the hot seat. But I think she let her advisors push her to the right, into a milquetoast corporate campaign. And that’s what killed it.

Layoffs have everything to do with the economy. If money isn’t going in then it isn’t going out and as money slows down, so does the economy. It doesn’t work without the people.

Lmao, he rebuilt the stock market.

That is not the economy.

Yeah that’s the unfortunate truth. And in the US it’s definitely a system that looks for people to victimize, there are financial and political incentives to doing so. We’re not going to solve it in the short term but the first step has got to be a wide realization that something is wrong there.

And neither is guaranteed. It’s really a very simple concept. I’m not sure what you’re having trouble with.

I didn’t say it did. But that happens every 2 years for sure. Nobody is guaranteed their seat, in their district or their committee.

That was the enforcement mechanism.

There also needs to be good enforcement. We made a law protecting the jobs of National Guard Soldiers called up for Iraq and Afghanistan and employers just didn’t care. Enforcement was extremely lax, basically having to personally pay a lawyer and employers had a million excuses the courts accepted.

In California, with a clear delineation of parents versus non parents.

That sound you’re hearing is Alphabet’s legal department smacking their head on their desk.

Every Chair.

So you’re telling me the Democrats have a messaging problem?

If you’re a realist then you would know every chair in the House of Representatives is up for grabs every 2 years.

Oof true but Lemmy doesn’t want to hear that. The “Beatings will continue until you vote for Wall Street’s Candidate” crowd hit Lemmy hard during the campaign and they convinced a lot of people that it was the voter’s fault if Democrats lost.

How are you so consistently on the wrong side of every issue? Are you like a staffer for a conservative Democrat or something?

I don’t think it was purpose, but they sure aren’t showing much effort. They’re used to living comfortable lives no matter who wins.

There are leaders and there are Leaders, there’s also party positions wholly outside of Congress. The Minority or Majority Speaker in Congress is not necessarily the leader of the party.

They’re rich and using rich advisors from the corporate executive sector. Is it any wonder they act like they don’t care about the working class and don’t care if Trump wins? They probably don’t believe he will do half the stuff he says he’s going to do. They’re used to losing and making millions of dollars off GOP trickle down policies. Crying right into their bank accounts. This is why we need more people from the working class in Congress. Why we need to uncap the House of Representatives. If we let the House of Representatives float a ratio like we used to a couple things happen. One, we can have cheaper, smaller campaigns that aren’t off limits to the working class. Two, we can further reduce the cost of running for office by using telework stuff. Anything classified can be done in any government building or military base that has access to the government’s secure intranet. This isn’t 1940 anymore, there is no more argument for freezing the number the seats in Congress.

That system is only for Presidential Primaries. There’s a primary for most positions all the way down to dog catcher. Getting a partisan seat gives you a voice in the state party and possibly the national if your seat is high enough. Get enough Congressional seats and you control the special delegate swing in Presidential Primaries. Might they change that system as a progressive movement gets more seats? Sure, and they can have another riot outside their national convention too.

The very thing you call rigging is vulnerable to a tea party style primary challenge.